The art of translation

Translation, as Manguel sees it, is the highest form of reading. Amid the ongoing debate about the relationship between translation and creativity, this book delves deeply into translation with analysis and interpretation, freeing the translator from the attribute that has accompanied him as merely a transmitter of the text. Manguel sheds light on translation as an art, a rebirth, a political act, and an immigration... and celebrates the "thief" translators who seize what is not theirs and plant it in the soil of their own language. A book for everyone who is tempted by the enchanting world of translation where the spirit of the text moves from one body to another.